Link consisting of non-ASCII characters is treated as a non-existing page
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Problem
The following markup is being defined in a page, page A:
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[Tésté]
Where "Tésté" is a valid and existing page in Confluence. Saving page A above render the link in red. It indicates that the page is not defined. The encoding for the environment is correct.
Cause
There is an issue which is related to PostgreSQL handling non-ASCII lower case characters.
Workaround
Workarounds are provided in Configuring Database Character Encoding.
Resolution
Update the initdb command:
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initdb -E UTF-8 --locale <your locale>.UTF8 /var/lib/pgsql/data
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